National Republican., 1887-04-18
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swer. ! say that any society that makes me
forget that fact is q bad society. When go to
Chicago am sometimes perplexed at Buffalo,
o aRe the HsRe she ons Or he
Michigan Central, equally expeditions and
equally safe, getting to their destination at the
same time. But suppose that hear that on
one route the track Is torn up, the bridges are
down and the switches are unlocked, 1t will
not take me a. great while to decide which
road to take. Now, here are two roads in the
safe and the unsafe. Any institution or any
association that confuses my ideas in regard to
that fact is bad institution and bad assocl-
Sa Society did % hse'i have them % ai,erwSrdP dG' % at
tended the house of God beiore / connected
myself with that union; do ! absent myself
from religious influences? Which would you
rather have in your hand when you come g
dIe-a pack of cards or Bible2 Which would
you rather have pressed to your lips In the
closing moment--the cup of Belshazzarean
Who would you rather have for your pallbear-
ers-the elders of a Christian church or the
companions whose conversation was full OF
slang and innuendo? Who would you rather
who spend their evenings betting gambling,
swearing, carousing, and telling vile stories,
or your little child, that bright girl whom the
Lord took? Oh, you would not have been
away SO much nights, would YOU. If you had
known she was going away so soon? Dear me,
your house has never been the same place
has never got over 1t; she never will get over It,
How long the evenings are with no one to put
to bed and no one to whom to tell the beauti-
What pity it is that you cannot spend mo re
evenings at home in trying to. help her bear
that sorrow. You can never drown that grief
In the wine cup. You can never break away
from the little arms that used TO be flung
around yourn when she used TO say, "Papa,
do stay with me tonight. Do stay with me
tonight" You will never be able to wipe
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tie girl. The fascination Of bad secret soci-
ETY. is so great that sometimes man has
turned his back on his home when his child
Before he he got S back at midnight the S eyes had
been closed, the undertaken had done his
work, and the wife, worn out with three
weeks watching, lay unconscious In the next
staiIs, and he sees the cradle gone and the
windows up, and says ''What is the natter"
On the judgment day he will find out what
"ei Oh m man astray, God help you. am going
to make very stout rope, You know that
sometimes O ropemaker will take very small
while they become ship cable. And / am 60
ing to take some delicate threads and wind
them together until they make avery stout
rope. i will take all the memories OF the mar;
rlage day, thread of laughter, thread of
light thread of music, thread of banquet
Ing, thread OF congratulation, and twist
them together and / have one strand: Then
your house. a thread of the darkness that pre-
ceeded, and thread of the light that fol-
lowed and thread of the beautiful scarf that
little child used to wear when sh0
bounded out at eventide to greet you, and then
thread OF the beautiful dress In which
you laid her away for the resurrection,
gethsr and ] have another strand. Then
] take thread of the scarlet robe of a suffer
ing Christ, and thread ofthe white raiment
Of your loyed ones before the throne, and
string of the harp cherubic, and string of the
harp seraphic, and twist them all together,
and have third strand. "O." you say,
'.either strand is enough to hold fast a world"
No; will take these strands and will twist
them together. and one end of that rope will
fasten, not TO the communion table. for 1t shall
be removed; not to pillar of the organ, for
that Will crumble In the ages, but l wind 1t
round and round the cross of a sympathiZlng
Christ, and, having fastened one end Of the
rope to the cross. throw the other end to you,
Lay held OF II. Pull for your life. Pull ior
heaven.